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AHHHHHH THANK YOU BESTIE

okay so basically one of my all time favourite headcanons for luke (and there are MANY lol) are about his scars!

so like, lukes scars themselves are a wildly accepted headcanon (that in return of the jedi when palpatine uses force lightning on him it leaves being a series of lightning scars all over his torso/arms) and like i adore the concept of a hero not walking away unscathed, ya know? so i love his scars, but where MY personal favourite headcanon comes in is the aftermath of them

i love the idea of lukes scars like… reacting to the force? like cause they are a product of the force that whenever he connects and uses the force his scars just alight like maybe not literally (or maybe literally too 👀) but like there’s this hot, crackling pull that travels across his scars like leylines whenever he uses his power and like i don’t think of it as painful (or maybe it is when he pushes himself too far, goes too deep into the force, and im gonna make this dinluke for a moment but i just love the idea that in those moments din will almost reverently touch his scars and massage them for luke to ease the pain) but it’s more like this itch of pure energy and power and like when there are great disturbances within the force he feels it in his scars first

okay im obsessed with this like-

luke is typically put into the school teacher/caregiver role in au's so i am so here for it being din's time to shine, because we see him with grogu and we know he good and kind to children so like in a jedi au, him being a creche master makes so much sense actually AHHH

oh!!! this is a good question okay!

to begin i don’t think it was insta-love or anything for either of them. not with how they met, like luke was there to answer grogus call and dins heart was being broken by having to say goodbye to his son, but i think in that moment there was probably some attraction on lukes end because it may be a joke in the fandom but din is like… exactly lukes type. from there with din trying to unsuccessfully visit yavin and luke ultimately sending grogu back (alone, mind you) to dins care i don’t think din would be having feelings for luke anytime soon. because on one hand luke is the man who he looked so hard for to help grogu and you can’t tell me he wouldn’t harbour a little resentment for that- a little anger for that moment on gideons ship where he had to say goodbye to grogu in lukes arms, and on the other, we know that din is hesitant when it comes to relationships. his devotion is important and comes first and that gives him pause.

luke though… i think that after he and din really get to talk again somewhere down the line after he finds them to offer grogu more training- luke falls fast. it’s easier for him, even with the jedi code in mind, lukes always been very open with his heart, not in a careless of callous way, but in the sense that he’s always loved connection and loved deeply. and becoming a jedi wouldnt change that, but amplify it. i think for luke he sees dins virtues- his strength, his loyalty, his wit, integrity and intelligence- and feels something deep twist in his gut. it’s instinct and i think after a few weeks luke just knows.

din falls slower. like l i think it would take him a few months to start looking at luke in a anything other than an acquaintance, to stop treating their time together as just meetings. and then i think it would be a few more after that for him to really admit the extent of what he’s starting to feel towards luke, but once he does it’s like all he can think about and he tries to avoid luke for a bit but ultimately he sees the same things luke had- that despite it all they work good together. really good. and the respect that luke has towards dins creed and his son and the way luke walks the world with an undeniable step of hope has him plummeting head over heels.

so luke definitely falls first and quietly pines for almost a year until din falls too and they just come together in this explosion of feelings and emotions and come together so easily and its like thats how it was always supposed to be.

personally i think din is a dog guy, like he just feels like the dude who would roll up with just the most impeccably trained group of dogs. i think with his role as a bounty hunter too he’d want a pet that could be with him in that sense you know? he’d definitely have bigger more guard type dogs - like a space german shepard or pitbull - he’d have dogs that look intimidating but at actually just goobers

luke i honestly think would be the type of guy to be like ‘i love all animals!’ when he secretly does not see the point of having a pet dog or cat at all, but i think he would leave food out for the random cat that lurks around his school in the evenings and they have a friendship where if he’s meditating outside sometimes the cat will come and sit down near him

yessssss omg i love this

totally didn’t think of this bc of the “golden retriever and black cat energy” memes

me: *immediately forgets every kind of dog ever*

lol in all seriousness im not too sure! as a dog lover i am woefully under informed about different dogs breeds and the such! i think for din id say a husky or an akita? loyal, hardworking and sturdy! i think those are all things din as a person values, so it translates well! for luke id say an australian shepherd, strong and fast, devoted to their families and surprisingly agile which i think fits with lukes jedi-ness!

tHANK YOU BESTIE for giving me an opportunity to shamelessly plug my fic ‘boys workin’ on empty’ over on ao3 which is a fic where i decided to take dinluke and make it retail lol

but ALSO- i firmly believe luke would survive by half the time trying to find places to hide and sit down for a few moments so he can rest and avoid people and the other half he’s just pretending he’s playing customer service/retail simulator

din just dissociates completely until he’s suddenly picking grogu up from daycare and making them dinner and he has absolutely no clue what he did at all during work hours

but they both survive the most by letting each other bitch and complain about each others days and then spend a lot of quality time together just decompressing :’)